Paragraph 50

In section 34 (minor modifications)^f1 after subsection (2) insert—

“(2A)

It is the Welsh Ministers who may make a determination that a closure is a minor modification, or that closures of a particular description are minor modifications, where the only closures to which the determination relates consist in—

(a)

the discontinuance of one or more Wales-only services; or

(b)

the discontinuance of a station, or part of a station, that—

(i)

is wholly in Wales, and

(ii)

is a station to which subsection (2B) applies or part of such a station.

(2B)

This subsection applies to a station at which the only scheduled calls made by any railway passenger service are those made by a railway passenger service provided under a Welsh franchise agreement or secured to any extent by the Welsh Ministers.”